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Owner: Saint Louis-San Francisco
Model:Alco 4-6-0Built As:SLSF 687 (4-6-0)
Serial Number:28718Order No:D-43
Frame Number:20X26 cylinders, 69" driversBuilt:10/1903
Notes:Alco-Dickson, 1903, 63" drivers
Other locos with this serial:  SLSF 687(4-6-0)
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SLSF 4-6-0 687 - St Louis-San Francisco Rwy (Frisco)
Title:  SLSF 4-6-0 687 - St Louis-San Francisco Rwy (Frisco)
Description:  Built in 1903 by the newly formed Alco (Alco-Dickson), this locomotive had 63" drivers and an engine/tender length of 53 1/3'.
Photo Date:  8/27/1936  Upload Date: 2/17/2013 6:59:25 AM
Location:  Fort Smith, AR
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  SLSF 687(4-6-0)
Views:  448   Comments: 0
SLSF 4-6-0 #687 - St Louis-San Francisco
Title:  SLSF 4-6-0 #687 - St Louis-San Francisco
Description:  Obviously this Alco-Dickson 4-6-0 ten wheeler built in October of 1903 as KCFS&M #687 now sits in a dead/scrap line. The loco was absorbed into the SLSF roster by 1910 and lasted until it disappeared from the roster between 1937-43. Dispostion unknown but probably scrapped. Specs - serial #28718, class 676, 63" drivers, 200 psi boiler pressure, 20x26" cylinders, engine weight of 159,800 lb, tractive effort of 28,100 lb. No date, location or photographer was listed for this photo but based on other photos, the loco is at Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Photo Date:  9/1/1937  Upload Date: 1/5/2022 8:03:09 AM
Location:  Fort Smith, AR
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  SLSF 687(4-6-0)
Views:  75   Comments: 0
SLSF 4-6-0 #687 - St Louis-San Francisco
Title:  SLSF 4-6-0 #687 - St Louis-San Francisco
Description:  Early photo of the 1903 Alco-Dickson ten wheeler #687 now boarded up and in a dead line.. Arthur B. Johnson photo credit.
Photo Date:  3/1/1938  Upload Date: 1/23/2016 12:19:58 PM
Location:  Fort Smith, AR
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  SLSF 687(4-6-0)
Views:  328   Comments: 0


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